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28 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
“These depictions of Native Americans were not accurate and were stereotypical and were deeply problematic, but at least they were present because the Western was a dominant form on television and film.”
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- 28 Aug 2019
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…Is Neal Stephenson correct that the Western as a genre doesn’t exist anymore? If so, what happened to it? I think about this a lot. Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, the Western was what you’d see on TV. I was thinking about the number of Native Americans I would see in a week watching Bonanza or whatever Westerns happened to be on the late show. These depictions of Native Americans were not accurate and were stereotypical and were deeply problematic, but at least they were present because the Western was a dominant form on television and film. I asked some students today, “What TV do you watch that features cowboys and Indians or Native Americans?” And there aren’t any. Hans Christian Andersen — “Emperor’s Clothes.” What’s the Straussian reading of that story?…
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